Please help me decode this 1971 ElCamino cowl tag

st 71 13680K 197900 BDY

TR 705 1919 PNT

05A 07441


thanks

Built at Leeds Plant in Kansas the first week of May, black interior, black exterior.

13680 = V8 el Camino Custom = Malibu (deluxe) trim
K = Kansas City, MO (earlier years have KAN here)
705 = Black Vinyl Bench seat interior
19 19 Tuxedo Black Acrylic Enamel upper & lower

Dan

Was curious, is there a L on the tag, and if so is it a possible SS ?

Was curious, is there a L on the tag, and if so is it a possible SS ?

It's possible, but to date the "L" on the tag has not been proven or disproven to indicate any option. Is the dash original and is it a sweep speedometer or a round speedometer? Does it have gauges (tach, water, amp) or warning lamps?

It does not have an "L" on the tag, I posted everything on the tag. What does the 07441 on the bottom right mean? It is not an SS, it has the long speedo, not the round one. It is silver now but still has the black bench seat. It is also a 4 speed and it appears it has always been one.

The 0744 part of the number is found on the build sheet in block #24 and is one of the Data Processing Sequence numbers. This is true for 1970 Kansas City cars as well. I don't think anyone has really deciphered exactly what they mean, if anything, other than an internal plant tracking system. The last digit, "1" in this case, is another mystery meaning.

Kind of like the body number, they aren't sequential and don't match with VIN sequence numbers. How they were arrived at is pretty much anyone's guess AFAIK. I don't believe they really have any significance today in relation to options, time of build, or anything that would be of importance to most of us. If, IF, any build sheet were found in the car, those numbers should match up thereby proving the build sheet found indeed belonged to that car. It doesn't happen often but build sheets for ohter cars have been found, one gentleman sent me three consecutive sequenced sheets found in one car and none belonged to that car.

Not to hijack but i have sequence numbers that match my car to the buildsheet. 180281

What year, what plant? Different plants put different ID numbers on their tags.

71 Chevelle, Kansas, Leeds

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The number they are talking about is in box 24. You are showing us the body number. The DP Sequence Number was the master computer file record for this particular order. Keep in mind they were building other makes and model along with the El Camino. Olds, Buick, Pontiac etc. This DP SEQ NO was linked to every operation the computer broadcast system controlled in all the plants that were involved in producing assemblies for the car and put them in the proper sequence so they would arrive at that point in the assembly process as the car did so the assembly line could move along at a fast clip. It was massive undertaking and to think they cared about individual cars to code in some special numbers to be discovered 38 yrs later is crazy, yet there are those they think that. The system was sequencing not only the car but every part and sub-assembly needed to build the car. It also control the inventory and millions of other functions. It was just computer programming and like computer programming it can be manipulated to perform many functions.

The number they are talking about is in box 24. You are showing us the body number. The DP Sequence Number was the master computer file record for this particular order. Keep in mind they were building other makes and model along with the El Camino. Olds, Buick, Pontiac etc. This DP SEQ NO was linked to every operation the computer broadcast system controlled in all the plants that were involved in producing assemblies for the car and put them in the proper sequence so they would arrive at that point in the assembly process as the car did so the assembly line could move along at a fast clip. It was massive undertaking and to think they cared about individual cars to code in some special numbers to be discovered 38 yrs later is crazy, yet there are those they think that. The system was sequencing not only the car but every part and sub-assembly needed to build the car. It also control the inventory and millions of other functions. It was just computer programming and like computer programming it can be manipulated to perform many functions.
Be that as it may. I was giving an example of having a buildsheet and identifying that it belonged to the same car without having a complete vin on the build sheet. If you looked in the above post i said "Not to hyjack". I understood which number and wanted to post a similiar but not exact example. Why start a different thread to a like circumstance?